By Goth Mohamed Goth

HE President Ahmed Mohamed Mahmoud (Silanyo)today meet with top executives of DNO International ASA (“DNO International”), the Norwegian oil and gas company which last year entered into a Production Sharing Contract (PSC) covering Block SL18 onshore Somaliland.

Speaking to members of the media fraternity Somaliland Minister of Foreign Affairs and international cooperation Hon Mohamed Bihi Yonis and the Minister of Energy and Minerals Hon Hussein Abdi Dualeh shortly after the meeting with the top executives of the Norwegian Oil exploration company had this to said today’s meeting was productive.

“We do hereby welcome DNO International ASA (“DNO International”), the Norwegian oil and Gas Company which last year entered into a Production Sharing Contract (PSC) covering Block SL18 onshore Somaliland and we believe future revenue earned from the drilling of petroleum will be for the benefit of Somaliland people”, Hon Bihi Yonis said.

The Minister of Energy and Minerals Hon Hussein Abdi Dualeh speaking during the press briefing said, “Somaliland government had recently signed an oil exploration deal last year in Washington DC and which covers  12,000 square kilometer block in an area that is both prospective and undrilled ,”

Hon Hussein A Dualeh went on to say “With me here today is the country director of DNO Mr. Hussein Jama Diriye who has been in the country for the past two months laying the groundwork for the company drill operation which are expected to commence soon.

DNO International ASA is an Oslo-listed, Middle East and North Africa focused, oil and gas company holding stakes in 18 licenses in various stages of exploration, development and production both onshore and offshore in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, the Republic of Yemen, the Sultanate of Oman, the United Arab Emirates, the Tunisian Republic and Somaliland.

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By Mohamed Ahmed

Professor Samatar is drifting into Somaliland orbit lately. Giving his importance of joining Somali politics, and the originality of his scholarly views on Somali conflict,Professor Samatar interest in Somaliland affairs deserves a look. The good professor made a visit to his motherland six month ago, and just made his second trip at the end of last month. It’s remarkable that Somaliland people applauded his splendid short term tour of the country with a hero welcome.

 Boxed in by South Somalia immobility of opening doors to the Northerners, the good professor took a radical step in changing his political game by aligning with Somaliland aspirations. One has to admire the professor straight-talking attitude, but one also has to wonder how long is it before the professor lose patience and start playing a double game of a politician and a scholar? After all this is a man who has such a good reputation for being impatient. Worst of all this is the same man who few years ago expressed a frank and deep aspiration to be the president of Somalia!

 The whole affair of welcoming those who previously opposed Somaliland merit some thoughts. It is up to Somaliland people to keep their gates. If you closely listen to the good professor lectures in Somaliland, he seems to expresses an ideology (subtly) that will not most probably get degree of adherence on the part of a majority of the population.   I find no ground to expect Professor Samatar to breathe light into Somaliland politics or economy. Somaliland survived the last twenty years without his help! The good profesor has a way with Somali words. He can captivate Somali audience and make them feel like a deer stuck in their Sorrow headlight. Sure Somaliland has a serious domestic crisis that deserves a mention, but is Somaliland ready for Professor Samatar tantrums and fanatical denunciations of those he disagrees with?  It goes without saying that professor Samatar is a very impatient man. You just have to view his recent YouTube video in Somaliland University.

Professor Samatar has every right as a Somali Scholar to expose the lies and the truth of Somaliland governments. He has every right to analyze actions of Somaliland authority according to their causes and motives. What I’m a bit skeptical about is the readiness of the public for a hysterical critic that will maybe dismiss their aspirations as a vain hope and false dreams! It is the role of a scholar to create and analyze ideologies, though expressions of professor Samatar critical views of Somali affairs can come across as self-serving politician.

 The whistleblowers’ site Wikileaks published a leaked Cable of US Embassy Addis Ababa. This is the 7th Cable of its kind. The Cable presents a 1 hour and half longJ endayi frazer, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs  meeting between,

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and Jendayi Frazer, the then U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs that covers a broad ranging issues concerning Kenya, Sudan, Somalia, Somaliland, and the Eritrean border. The meeting, held on Jan. 31/2008, was also attended by Donald Yamamoto, US Ambassador to Ethiopia, Ambassador Courville, Sudan S/E Williamson, AF/SPG Director Lauren Landis.

Kenya’s post-election violence: Meles appears to prefer pressuring the opposition parties and their candidate Rayla Odinga(now Prime Minister). Though he advised US and EU to warn both sides ‘regarding accountability for violence’, he seems to hold the opposition responsible for it. Meles said:

‘the international reaction thus far does not inspire moderation. The EU response of cutting off assistance gives the message that ]President] Kibaki is the “bad guy” and does not push Odinga or his group to moderate their positions.’

‘it would be helpful for the United States, in coordination with the EU, to speak to both the opposition and [the pro-government] key Kikuyu figures in clear terms regarding accountability for the violence.’

Jandayi Frazer doesn’t appear to contradict his assessment of the opposition, rather claims the lack of leverage over the opposition, and wishes to see more accommodating efforts by President Kibaki.

Sudan-US relations: A/S Frazer expresses twice its disenchantment with the Sudanese ruling party, National Congress Party (NCP), negative rhetoric towards the US and its threatening to expel US  Charge d’Affaires and those engaged in building the peacekeeper building camps. Remarkably, Meles Zenawi, downplayed Khartoum’s rhetoric saying,

‘the government in Khartoum is “not a one man show” and he did not think these threats were serious’.

‘the NCP was posturing a bit and that they would not push too far.’

Somaliland Recognition: Both Meles and Frazer wants the African Union to take the lead in the recognition Somaliland. She said that:

she had raised the issue with AU Chairperson Alpha Oumar Konare, who seemed to be placing unrealistic conditions for addressing the Somaliland issue. The first was that Somaliland negotiate with the government in Mogadishu, either the TFG or its successor, regarding its independence, and the second was that there be a regional consensus on Somaliland’s status, neither of which are likely to happen or result in any clear decisions.

Meles stated his government position on Somaliland is similar to the United States. However, he said ‘the political situation within the AU was not yet ripe for addressing the Somaliland issue.’ Meles claimed the then Somaliland President, Rayale, messed up by not following his advise on how to raise the issue in the AU. Meles said that:

he urged him[Rayale] to write to the AU requesting that they identify a timeframe for a discussion on the Somaliland issue. However, Rayale “messed things up” by essentially re-sending his previous letter requesting recognition and membership in the AU, rather than asking for a timeframe for a discussion on Somaliland.

Meles said that, if Somaliland had taken the route that he suggested, it would have been likely that the issue could have been addressed soon. However, if the elections for a new AU Chairperson take place during the AU Summit, Meles said that the next chairperson is unlikely to be as positive towards Somaliland as Konare, which will only further delay any discussion of Somaliland.

Ethio-Eritrean border: The cable also contains a vague discussion on the Ethio-Eritrean border. A/S Frazer asked Meles ‘what would have been the consequences of dropping out of the Algiers Agreement.’ Meles’s response is even less clear, he noted that

had Ethiopia dropped out of the Algiers Process, it would not have changed Ethiopia’s position to remain committed to avoiding conflict with Eritrea. Dropping out would have consolidated hard-liners within his own government who advocate a tougher line with Eritrea and the U.N., and confused the Eritreans.

http://danielberhane.com/2011/03/29/pm-meles-zenawi-with-jendayi-frazer-on-kenya-sudan-somaliland-eritrea-7th-leaked-cable-of-us-embassy-addis-ababa/

By Abdirahman Mohamed Dirye

 Somaliland foreign minister Yonis Bihi announced the stalled talks will resume in Turkey very soon, this announcement comes after a minister from Mogadishu said they stipulated the talks to start with Somaliland, of the phrase of independence from the dialogue be removed which sent heart-breaking message to Somalilanders all over the world and presumably returned the talks to square one. Mogadishu based government led by Sheikh Hasan at the mercy of a foreign military protector is thought they became politically mature. Talks meant to discuss ways of amicable disunity since Somalia went belly-up, so instead facing reality sooner than later. They chose to kick the can down the road. But they can’t rewrite history.

 It is obvious Somaliland wants independence and exit from Somalia’s quagmire, so the demand to remove the word of independence from any future talks is pointless.

Before last year, Sheikh Hasan president sleeping in minefield house near the killing-fields of Mogadishu, only miles within the mortar range of Al Shabab woke up of shelling perhaps and uttered “Somaliland is based on sentimentality…,” this rhetoric came as bombshell to thousands of Somalilanders celebrating of their D- day, 18 May of the unilateral declaration of independence that led global isolation on Somaliland and kept the people in state of limbo ever since.  Speech, however, has consequences; can instigate deadly war, so he needs to have sane press secretary— I do not think sane person has been left in the “ black hole anarchy”— to censor his childish utterances.

From Somaliland’s perspective, such irresponsible assertion and indirect territorial sovereignty claims over Somaliland meant declaration of war upon Somaliland and a painful remainder of brutal years they spent together with failed union with Mogadishu brutal dictator.

 Unlike South and North Sudans which agreed on Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), which led the separation, Somalia’s delegates go to the talks venue thinking the talks outcome is not internationally binding and they can pick and choose or they can come once they wish or disappear from the scene if they want to, as well.  Such talks at the least in their mind are very much similar to the ones they have with Xeeb Xin region or Puntland in Somalia. And they consider Turkish officials represent none other than themselves or praying as Muslim faithful for the return of Somalia’s delusional unity.

During the current president’s predecessor Sharif Sheikh Hasan, currently formatting his mentality in Boston, MA. USA to stay updated had deal with Kenyan government to demarcate the maritime zone of Somalia once again. He unwittingly signed a deal with Nairobi— annexation of Somalia’s beautiful rich coast to Kenya is not an issue here.  Once asked what is called what he signed “it is not an accord but a memorandum of understanding” he naively uttered.

Somaliland does want inherited border at the time of colonial demarcation be recognized as a nation.

Turkey must forewarn Somalia of the consequences if they fail to oblige the communiqué.  Somalia have sworn in the Quran or others thousand times before but never met! Unless the international community gives ultimatum to Mogadishu so called leaders to oblige and meet accords, the talks will lead us to nowhere because Somalia’s hand-picked folks with Taliban tendencies including the parliament are not God-fearing but of the brutality of the world police.

However; Somaliland considered talks would lead win-win situation and kept dialogue open—still continues to believe so— but had a rude awaking when Somalia Saled Jele-style minister uttered ridiculous remarks.

A student’s negative behavior within an educational environment just may be the result of how that environment is presented. Classroom motivation may be affected by how you, as a teacher, provide encouragement, opportunities, structure and a strong student-teacher relationship. 

Self-confidence is an attitude which allows students to have positive yet realistic views of themselves and their situations. Self-confident students trust their own abilities, have a general sense of control in their lives, and believe that, within reason, they will be able to do what they wish, plan, and expect. Having self-confidence does not mean that students will be able to do everything. Self-confident student have expectations that are realistic. Even when some of their expectations are not met, they continue to be positive and to accept themselves.

Students who are not self-confident depend excessively on the approval of other students in order to feel good about them. They tend to avoid taking risks because they fear failure. They generally do not expect to be successful. They often put themselves down and tend to discount or ignore compliments paid to them. By contrast, self-confident student are willing to risk the disapproval of others because they generally trust their own abilities. They tend to accept themselves; they don’t feel they have to conform in order to be accepted.

Teachers themselves can help the students to have self-confidence or not because Students can easily feel discouraged when constantly condemned for their academic faults. In order to encourage motivation in your students, you must first create a positive environment for them. Surprisingly, improving a student’s academic achievement or behavior may only take a compliment or a change in classroom structure. Providing positive feedback Rather than consistently criticizing a student’s work, praise his strengths within each assignment. He may be more likely to accept and learn from the criticisms when he is provided with a positive evaluation as well. Students may have a hard time grasping material in the classroom. Informing them about extracurricular activities may help improve their performance within the classroom and help boost their confidence and it will present additional learning opportunities.

Structure your classroom time with easy-to-follow activities, without lowering classroom standards. Students comprehend information differently and having patience as a teacher is a key to creating a sense of belonging for students, especially for those who are struggling. It is very important to Offer additional time to students outside of the classroom. Due to looking unintelligent in front of classmates, a student may not raise her hand to admit that He/she does understand the topic being taught. Offering additional time for students who do not feel confident in their learning abilities allows them to feel more secure in asking questions at an interpersonal level. This will create a strong student-teacher relationship that will hopefully continue throughout the school year.

On other hand Student motivation and engagement play an important role in learning and academic achievement. Closely related to motivation is self-discipline, the ability of students to monitor and control their own behaviors. Students who are highly self-disciplined may be able to better focus on long-term goals and make better choices related to academic engagement. In addition, the concept of self-discipline focuses on students’ own ability to engage in (or refrain from engaging in) particular behaviors, rather than reliance on external motivations, rewards, or punishments.

 Mohamoud Dahir Omar

  Education Analyst

  Hargeisa, Somaliland

    Tell: 0634423327

By: Eng. Hussein Adan Igeh (Hussein Deyr) [Hargeisa, Somaliland

The most pathetic pessimist on earth is the person who denies the good things that has been done for the wider social and public interest, regardless who has done it!  The current government deals with challenging issues of today as well as for tomorrow; focusing mainly on those issues (national and international) that really matters and affects the lives of Somaliland people.

Genel Energy’s come back to Somaliland Republic seems to have a demoralizing implication to Somaliland’s opponents, distracters to development as well as to those unbalanced and immature politicians that are lacking of tact, vision and context driven politicalconvictionthat are continuously spreading false and damaging stories about the country’s development, international firms investing the country as well as the president and his cabinet members.

Genel Energy is back, this time on a permanent tenure!

On Wednesday, 20^th Nov. 2013, a high profile delegation of Genel Energy Firm led by the company’s CEO Mr. Tony Hayward came with a direct special flight (the first of its kind) from Luton (UK) to Somaliland’s Capital Hargeisa.

Genel Energy, the British-Turkish Energy Production Company has returned to Somaliland and declared its commitments of continuing Oil and Gas exploration activities in the country, this time on a permanent tenure.  During a joint press briefing with the Minister of Minerals & Energy Hon. Hussein A. Dualeh, Mr. Hayward stated that he was very happy that his company was returning to Somaliland and he pledged the firm will step up its efforts to pursuit of prospecting of Oil and Gas for the benefits of each and everyone in the Somaliland Republic. Mr. Hayward also hailed the meeting with the President of Somaliland and his ministerial team as a fruitful one and expressed his delight and pleasure of its result.

In 2012 Genel Energy obtained substantial acreage in Somaliland, investing two sizeable blocks in central-east Somaliland and started pre-elemi nary exploration work programme for both blocks. Genel Energy was so far in the process of prospecting Oil and Gas in Somaliland. The company has been committed to and implemented an extensive searching work programme and completed environmental impact assessments and aerial surveys. In addition, a significant work preparation has been made for acquiring 2-D Seismic data collection, before Genel Energy unexpectedly departed out of the country. Early September 2013, all at once the company halted its operations, this due to operational and local challenges, including ‘security concerns’.

The natural resources belong to all citizens, not to a certain clan or sub-clan!

To the frustration of many Somaliland’s citizens at home and in abroad, Genel Energy’s abrupt departure has created a climate of collective confusion; each end of the political spectrum in the Somaliland Republic was attacking the other, laying blame for creating a climate of mistrust and public upheaval that could have fostered a such division.

The statehood and clan loyalties have a destructive effect on each other. In most of the cases, the frame of mind of loyalty to a particular clan cannot coexist with a wider societal context where Somalilanders are considered to belong to and being part of a democratic constitutional state. When the citizens of the country are the main obstacles that hold back for the government’s development attempt, I wonder what for power the state yet would have to fulfil its obligations towards the people and country! In Somaliland, the main sticking point of the statehood, social progress and state institutions is the tribal mindedness of Somalilanders themselves.

It was very sad, shocking and shameful to have noticed that some clans openly interfered with contracts signed by the government with international firms.

We know now in details that there has been threatening letters sent to Genel Energy by tribal minded Diaspora groups who claimed to be the rightful owners of any oil contracts in their specific areas. Those untrustworthy Diaspora groups should know that the natural resources do not belong to a certain clan or sub-clan where it is found but it is the assets of all citizens in the country. The state has obligations to protect the interest of the nation and every citizen has a right to the natural resources whose management is strictly the constitutional task and duty of the central government.

Progress-loving people is the only guarantee for future prosperity

The government of Somaliland is committed to working attentively with Genel Energy to help make possible the sustained success of this vital national project. The government has not only guaranteed of conducive working environment free from trouble and harassment by distracters to development but all relevant issues pertaining to its contractual obligations.

The government has taken audacious steps to protect and take full possession of the country’s natural resources to make sure the success of the exploration effort. The government shall embark on a major public awareness building and community engagement programme to realize a mutual and favourable working situation. Furthermore, before any major operation begins, there will be established a national security protective force which will protect and ensure overall safety of the expatriates while carrying out their work.

If our people are wise enough, we should embrace and welcome any attempt and anyone who is willing to explore, prospect and develop the natural resources of the country. Our people must become aware of the value and necessity of such projects concerning country’s development and in particular for the advancement of prosperity level of the citizens of this country.Thwarting and threatening international oil companies wishing to do business with our country (which is not yet recognized) is an unprecedented stupidity!

In order to avert any similar situation in which Genel Energy has stumbled upon, the citizens of this country should realize the importance and impact of this project in relation to the country’s development as well as our people’s future wealth. We must take note of the mistakes made in the past that caused the company (Genel Energy) halted its operations. The lessons should be learned and then acted on them. Additionally, there should be a severe punishment for any person or group of persons found acting damagingly to national concern or any other ruthless groups found engaging in acts similar to those of threatening International Energy Firms into suspension of ongoing exploration activities.

Long Live and may ALLAH bless the Somaliland Republic and its Noble people

Eng. Hussein Adan Igeh (Hussein Deyr) [Hargeisa, Somaliland]

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Dr. MLK, Jr

Aptly, the social group ”Madasha wadda tashiga iyo toosinta,” of whom mostly are the conscientious members of the public, came forward to call for a national dialogue amidst the welter of conflicting rules, a dangerous brew of external and internal political turmoil and violent conflicts, fickle policies, and rapacious acts of the executive branch, which by all accounts put Somaliland in a situation likely facing a slow, painful but expected [for those who knows the leader ‘s checkered history] death at the hands of an innocent killer. Why would anyone who had stake in the country’s struggle against a dictator deem to act exactly the same as the dictator he fought against?

Over the years Mr. Silanyo die-hard supporters repeatedly told us that he is morally spotless; that he was persecuted only by dissenting public opinion for his involvement in earlier conspiracies during his tenure in the SNM leadership and his participation in stoking war between brotherly sub clans in the 90’s, that he was presented as a scapegoat for the acts of others; the superior child whose virtues are not recognized. We were given to believe that the destructions he causes are not a result of his intentions; only the sacrifice he makes for others is.  That was the picture we saw of him before his presidency. Unfortunately this is a story that still appeals to some who refuses to see Mr. Silanyo in his organic nature.

Neither any conscientious Somali Lander nor I should have given a second thought of a supposedly bright future for Somaliland under Mr. Silanyo leadership solely if the self-parodying of SNM struggle participants to be more patriotic and caring the entity than others holds any truth in it. Contrarily, if anything, such Somaliland post partum psyche has peddled our lack of understanding of the importance of honoring the infallible citizen’s equation, which is the general moral code for a progressive society.

It has been quite a departure from what was considered as a firm and plausible stand of Mr. Silanyo during his campaign for the presidency against anything that harms our social fabric and infringes citizens’ rights to form association to confer a platform for national debates on issues to the comparative counterproductive policies of his government.

In hindsight, it seemed now as one of his tactical statements that cast in tunes of reason but contrary to what he believes, apparently borrowing a leaf of whimsicality from his master’s book, Said Bare. His tactics of rummaging of his many colors for what could make sense for the public along with his checkered history, which entails glaring failures, could have spilled the beans about his true intentions if central community had given much thought about Silanyo’s past pertaining to his undignified management style.

One year into his tenure, Somaliland independent media presented a harrowing tale of power abuses and his hawkeyed policy against certain clans, groups, and sub clans, a revenge act amesh of his incorrigible character and impenitent heart. Laws and regulations have either been modified or given different explanation with the support of his lackeys in the two chambers to suite his purpose. The central community leaders as well as many social groups either ignored the abuse or participated in it, creating a leadership character that exterminates the national fabrics and yet remains fundamentally innocent in the eyes of our central community, though comparatively in a dwindling proportion. 

Through this power abusive Mr. Silanyo became more arrogant and spontaneously put his conspiracy skills into practice to dissolve other political parties of his political nemesis, though one failed to materialize, subjugation and arbitrary arrests of independent media became the norm and not the exception, the periphery clans’ members in the public service were purged out and are given less than their rightful share either in his government portfolios or in the army brass, a flagrant violation of the agreement in the Borama Conference, which the central community leaders must have been persuaded of its severity. However, central community leaders remained unfazed and are largely to blame, as signatures of that agreement, for Somaliland’s current precarious situation and injustice as their inept handling of the incompliance lead to the clan representation imbalance in the current government.

There’s always been a leadership moral whether the leader exercises or not. The worst leadership moral is that which is unconsciously expressed in actions and when that happens the morals that show up are the ones he actually lives by. And that tells much more truth about what he believes or what he’s been persuaded of. 

            Perhaps, we should all know now that there is more to becoming an effective, loyal, and fairleader than being ONLY a participant in the SNM struggle. And unless the central community and its leaders forfeit that misleading perception and be able to winnow candidates, among other attributes, on qualifications, loyalty, competency, and fairness, which would fundamentally help us safeguard the unity and ennoble our aspiration as well as give credence to the reason we fought against the tyrant, we are doomed to reap the repercussions that would eventually boomerang on our aspirations for the future of the entity.

Needless to say, Somaliland is a collection of cards and if not well glued together by treating each and every card as equal and giving each card’s citizens equal opportunity to serve the country in his/her capacity, competence and qualifications, it could strip off one card after the other and definitely that will not bode well for the future of the Somaliland entity.  

Thus the question remains “will the central community and its leaders ever change the contentious perception and grow out of it?” Otherwise with no change in thinking, it will reinforce the notion that Somaliland is one-clan-entity and give credit to Awdal, Khatumo, and Makhir states, which are born eventually out of resentment and lack of respect to the inter-clan agreements by the central community, as these other communities stand between existence as entity and oblivion. The ball is in the central community and its leadership court.

 Sharmarke Ali

 Seattle, WA

Assuming that we can understand the situation that could practically and technically besmirch the credential of the overseers at the Civil Service Commission Hqs, the presentation of whatever happened and the retorts in its aftermath only compounds to the problems we have been trying to always highlight in this column.
Given the scenario that the press claims is that CSI’s hall was the venue that was “stormed” by “Muslims” who “kicked out” a blasphemous gathering, vis-à-vis the CSI’s chiefs painstaking rejoinder of denial, the former falls short of expected standards while the latter should live up to their words.
As we sympathize with Messrs M.O. Abdillahi and I.H. Nour for the bad light unverified articles depicted and made out of their charge, we hope that they will use legal means to clear their institution’s name.
Of course going by the original versions of the initial story, an arbitration panel would rightly argue that the stories were too sweeping, un-authoritative and unverified because of clear lack of attributions; it was made and presented as straight forward hearsays.
Our bone of contention here has always been two prongs:-
First and foremost we abhor malicious and libelous articles and expect the media to be ethical just as we support media freedom and press justice to the hilt and with the same emotion.
Secondly, victims (or alleged victims) of unruly press should not be voluble with words only or be assumed to spitfire rhetoric, but should indeed redress the matter according to the law, for the good of all the society.
Accusations and counter accusations has been customized so much that its culture is hurting both the nation and its people portraying the press as a gutter one. How can we defend our own when we put ourselves into disrepute by undermining ethics and foregoing basic rules of reporter, reporting and what is worth reporting?
In this case, now that the CSI chiefs claim that the offensive newspapers’ reps ‘absconded’ hence backtracked on apologizing and retracting their stories, they have expectedly threatened to sue them.
Their sworn actions to follow-up the matter should, in the light we see, help the media caliber in the whole nation.
Treating our public to cat and mouse races always has gone too far hence become a public nuisance.
On the same note, speaking on the same media issue, we should be careful not to tread carelessly on situations that need no substantiations for the obvious. This is mainly because the impressions we make always lasts; especially first impressions of practically anything or everything that is a first.
All Somalilanders of all walks of life, people in offices of note whether public or private and all stakeholders should always think Somaliland first before any other earthly issues.
What we sow is what we would reap; in other words our image matters now and in the future hence we should be wary of what type of precedence we are setting at all times.
Ways and means of managing crisis should be an asset the CSI ought to teach both public and private sector officials. They, then, should do the right thing.
Once more we accord barbs and barbs to shoddy local media.

By M A EGGE